Mother of All Black Spiders.
W.M.D. (Widow Maker of Death) found in my shed.

Did you use gasoline or briquette lighter fluid?

I prefer a good hairspray

If my wife ever found anything CLOSE to that on our property, the house would have been burnt to the ground.

I can imagine that would make your hair stand on end when you finally saw it.

There's one living outside my house. I don't mess with it cuz I don't ever hang out in that area, but if I start to see more they'll get to see how fire works.

She's cute. Did you take her in and let her feed on you?

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Originally posted by Orguss:
There's one living outside my house. I don't mess with it cuz I don't ever hang out in that area, but if I start to see more they'll get to see how fire works.

Yeah spiders don't really creep me out I just let them be. I guarantee it's not the only one in there I'm sure she has some recluse friends in there as well. Now if it was in a place one of my family members would go they would be gone for sure.

I had a black widow that I kept for a while when I was a teenager. I caught her in the woodpile out back and kept her in a jar for about a year and a half before she died.

She was a big sucker, too. Just fed her regular bugs I caught around the house and all that.

(Obviously, spiders never bothered me...lol)

I have made it my mission to hunt these. You can usually spot them by the web. I found a few here at work up against the building. Tickle the web a bit and out she comes.

Had a period there where we found TWO in the house recently, one just crawling through the kitchen. Those were dispatched quickly and the house exterminator called. Can't chance them with a little curious one year old boy walking around the house now.

If I think I see one where there might be kids around, I usually try to lure it and kill it.

And, that one looks especially large, but they are quick for the size.

Those suckers are everywhere in this area. Turn over a log or a bucket, there's a 50/50 chance there's a black widow under it. If it wasn't for a couple of hungry little birds that hang out in my barn, it would be infested with them.

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Originally posted by callibird:

If I think I see one where there might be kids around, I usually try to lure it and kill it.

Most definitely. I found one under my daughter's slide once.

Being in the local area, not a problem. They are indigenous and if they don't bother me, I don't bother them. Being on my property or in my home - DRT!

any money in catching them fer antivenom??

Me and a friend hunted them as kids. We kept them in jars.

Too close for missiles, switching to guns.

caught one in an old house once, found a male and let them at it in a jar. He didn't last long.

when the egg appeared, it was cool until it hatched. Looked like thousands of babies-translucent little demons. I burned them in the chiminea.

Ever since I saw how many come out of an egg, I have no mercy with the BWs. All others can live.